Oct. 23, 2023 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell
One firefighter was injured after lithium-ion e-bike batteries sparked a three-alarm fire at a Sunset Park storage facility on Sunday.
Oct. 20, 2023 By Adam Daly
An 18-year-old man was indicted Friday in the “brutal murder” of social justice advocate Ryan Carson in Bedford-Stuyvesant earlier this month.
Oct. 20, 2023 By Adam Daly
Council Member Justin Brannan has backed community calls on the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office to drop the assault charges against a Bensonhurst father who was arrested for allegedly protecting his 13-year-old son from an adult attacker last month.
Oct. 19, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith City agencies behind the design of the new 15-story, 1,040-bed Brooklyn Borough Jail in Boerum Hill have reneged on commitments made to the community during the land use review process, compromising the jail’s ability to integrate safely into the neighborhood, locals said at a community board meeting Wednesday night….
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Oct. 19, 2023 By Augostina Mallous
In the sterile halls of the Perlmutter Cancer Center, one woman’s heart raced as she faced an all-too-familiar dread.
Oct. 19, 2023 By Ximena Del Cerro
“The undeniable truth is, we are all going to die. So why not embrace the inevitable and go dancing to our graves?” reads the invitation to “Nightfall: Danse Macabre,” Green-Wood Cemetery’s crowning event of the fall.
Oct. 18, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer
A 17-year old boy was shot in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Wednesday morning following a recent slight uptick in violence in the area.
Oct. 18, 2023 By Adam Daly The Department of Transportation partially closed the infamous triple cantilver on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway over the weekend to complete some much-needed repairs to the span — with closures to sections of the notoriously congested roadway pushing traffic onto surrounding streets, to the dismay of local businesses. From Oct. 14-16, the…
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Oct. 18, 2023 By Jada Camille
The Bay Ridge Community Development Center will soon be able to renovate the old church building it has operated in since 2020 into a fully-equipped community center.
Oct. 18, 2023 By Ximena Del Cerro
A firefighter was injured while battling a blaze at a vacant Ocean Hill building on Tuesday afternoon, according to the FDNY.